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Updated: Thursday, 27 Aug 2009, 12:00 AM PDT
Published : Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009, 3:03 PM PDT
Posted by: Scott Coppersmith, Tony Spearman
West Hollywood (myFOXla.com) - The white Mercedes-Benz belonging to murdered swimsuit model
Jasmine Fiore was found on Wednesday in the parking lot of a West
Hollywood market and was towed to Orange County, where it will be
searched by homicide investigators.
You can watch Gigi Graciette's report in the video
player.
Investigators had been searching for the 2007 Mercedes CL
S550 since Fiore, 28, was reported missing Aug. 15 by her one-time
husband -- and eventual murder suspect -- Ryan Alexander Jenkins.
Fiore's mutilated body was found earlier that day inside a
suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin, but the body remained
unidentified for three days because her teeth and fingers had been
removed. Authorities identified her using a serial number on her
breast implants.
Fiore had been beaten and strangled, police said.
Jenkins, a 32-year-old former contestant on a VH1 reality
show, was initially sought for questioning in the case, but he was
later charged with murder and became the focus of an international
manhunt. That hunt ended Sunday, when the Calgary native was found
hanging by a belt from a coat rack in the Thunderbird Motel in
Hope, British Columbia.
Somebody spotted Fiore's Mercedes in the parking lot of an
empty building next to a Trader Joe's market at 8623 Santa Monica
Blvd. in West Hollywood, within walking distance of where the two
lived, according to Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek.
The vehicle was impounded and was taken to the Orange County
crime lab in Santa Ana for processing "for any possible evidence
involving the homicide," police said.
The car was fairly dusty and appeared as if it had not been
driven in awhile, Kohanek said. It was the car Jenkins and Fiore
were last seen together in, he added. So far, investigators have
not found Fiore's teeth or fingers in the car, according to
Kohanek.
"There was nothing glaring or stood out about it" as far as
evidence goes, Kohanek said of the Mercedes.
Fiore and Jenkins were married earlier this year in Las Vegas
-- shortly after Jenkins had been eliminated from the VH1 reality
show "Megan Wants a Millionaire" -- but the marriage had been
annulled.
Jenkins and Fiore checked into a hotel on Aug. 13 in San
Diego, where they attended a charity poker tournament. Witnesses
said the two quarreled at the event and that Fiore was texting
another man.
A security camera recorded Jenkins leaving the hotel the next
morning alone, and Fiore was not seen alive again.
Authorities in Canada have been searching for a woman who
helped Jenkins check into the motel where he was later found dead.
A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday
authorities believe they know who the woman is.
Fiore, who recently moved to Los Angeles from Las Vegas,
worked as a model in advertising and for Playboy as a
representative and coordinator for "Girls of Golf," said her
mother, Lisa Lepore.
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